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cdiggins / cat-language

cat-language

Cat - a statically typed functional stack-based programming language

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
294GitHub stars
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Cat - a statically typed functional stack-based programming language

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-12 20:32:14 UTC to 2024-06-23 15:45:55 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I just don’t want the first comment here to be about the name already being taken. Let’s discuss the substance of this language and let its authors figure out marketing. If I’m reading it right, it’s a functional programming language but has higher level language capabilities built on top of it and each level of capabilities is packaged as a “level” to help know what runtime/capabilities are available to any program. I could be way off though. It also seems very dead as the original site points to a GitHub 404. Edit: bad forward on the domain but the GitHub repo is here, last update was three years ago: https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language
In Cat: A statically typed concatenative language
There exist other languages in the category, e.g. https://kittenlang.org/, http://www.factorcode.org/, https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language). I assume the parent poster referred to improving those (or at least explaining which deficiencies of those myrth is addressing). (In case you didn't already, you can read about this family of languages in http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenativ...) I'm personally happy that somebody is doing more research in this field.
In Mirth – a type-safe concatenative purely functional programming language

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